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The original National Library building on Kings Avenue, Canberra, was designed by Edward Henderson. Originally intended to be several wings, only one wing was completed and was demolished in 1968. Now the site of the Edmund Barton Building.The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for 'maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to and the.'
In 2012–2013, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional 15,506 metres (50,873 ft) of manuscript material. Discussion of the acquisition and preservation process of Joan Blaeu's Archipelagus Orientalis (1663) by the National Library (2013)The National Library holds an extensive collection of pictures and manuscripts.
The manuscript collection contains about 26 million separate items, covering in excess of 10,492 meters of shelf space (ACA Australian Archival Statistics, 1998). The collection relates predominantly to Australia, but there are also important holdings relating to, and the Pacific. The collection also holds a number of European and Asian manuscript collections or single items have been received as part of formed book collections.The Australian manuscript collections date from the period of maritime exploration and settlement in the 18th century until the present, with the greatest area of strength dating from the 1890s onwards. The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century Cartulary, the journal of on the HM Bark Endeavour, inscribed on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, the diaries of and from the, and 's and Charles Ulm's log of the Southern Cross.A wide range of individuals and families are represented in the collection, with special strength in the fields of politics, public administration, diplomacy, theatre, art, literature, the pastoral industry and religion. Examples are the papers of, Sir John Latham, Sir Keith Murdoch, Sir Hans Heysen, Sir John Monash, Vance Palmer and Nettie Palmer, A.D. Hope, Manning Clark, David Williamson, Sir Robert Menzies, Sir William McMahon, Lord Casey, Geoffrey Dutton, Daisy Bates, Jessie Street, and and both of whose papers were inscribed on Register in 2001.The Library has also acquired the records of many national non-governmental organisations. They include the records of the Federal Secretariats of the Liberal party, the, the Democrats, the, the Australian Inland Mission, the Australian Union of Students, The Australian Ballet, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Australian Industries Protection League, the Australian Conservation Foundation, and the Australian Council of National Trusts.
Finally, the Library holds about 37,000 reels of of manuscripts and archival records, mostly acquired overseas and predominantly of Australian and Pacific interest.The National Library's Pictures collection focuses on Australian people, places and events, from European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events. Art works and photographs are acquired primarily for their informational value, and for their importance as historical documents.Media represented in the collection include photographs, drawings, watercolours, oils, lithographs, engravings, etchings and sculpture/busts. Reading roomsThe large National Library building is home to various reading rooms and collections. On the ground floor is the Main Reading Room — this is where the bulk of the Library's Internet access terminals are located, and where wireless internet access is available. Services are also delivered on-site from the Newspaper & Family History zone on the ground floor, Special Collections Reading Room on the 1st floor, and Asian Collections on level 3.
ServicesThe National Library of Australia provides a national leadership role in developing and managing collaborative online services with the Australian library community, making it easier for users to find and access information resources at the national level. Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) and offers free access through the Libraries Australia subscription based service which is also operated by the NLA.
It is used for reference, collection development, cataloguing and interlibrary lending. Cataloguing-in-Publication (CiP) details, and ISMNs for Australian publishers. PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive. A collection of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations. Trove, online library database aggregatorThe National Library of Australia maintains a catalogue of the resources in its own collection which are available to the general public. National Library of Australia CatalogueTrove. Main page: TroveTrove is an online library database aggregator, a centralised national service built with the collaboration of major libraries of Australia.
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Trove's most well known feature is the digitised collection of Australian newspapers. By June 2013 over 10 million digitised pages, or 100 million articles were accessible through Trove. Many of the NLA's resource discovery services have been fully integrated with Trove—meaning that several (such as 'music Australia', 'pictures Australia' and 'Australian newspapers') are now accessible only through the site. Others (such as PANDORA and the ANBD) use Trove as their primary means of public access. The service is able locate resources about Australia and Australians, which reaches many locations otherwise unavailable to external search engines.
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It is the rubbing in Song Dynasty, and it is the earliest known city flat map of carved stone.This is the first systematic forensic medicine work in the world, which is written by Song Ci in Song Dynasty. The version of this one is from 'Ge Zhi Series of Books' edited by Hu Wenhuan in Ming Dynasty.The exhibition displays 120 items from NLC New Year pictures collection and 110 items of New Year Pictures Project representative inheritors' works.The Library Cave of Dunhuang Mo Kao Grottoes, which was discovered in 112 ago, opened the treasure house of literature in the medieval period of China.